Song Biao said simply, without comment.

He had been developing the navy before, but he used the strategy of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, actively developed members in the Qing Navy through the Chinese Revolutionary Society and the Restoration Society, in order to directly intercept the navy in the future, and set up a separate one for this.

A new branch organization - Tongguanghui, Song Wenyi is one of the earliest members of Tongguanghui, and there are also a group of people including Wu Yingke, Yan Fu, Xu Zhenpeng, Lin Baoyi, Cai Yanping, etc. They continued to quietly go to the Qing Dynasty Navy.

Active activities in China.

Until July last year, the Russian Navy Department proposed to jointly organize the Northeast River Inspection Bureau with him, and in this name, he wanted to re-establish the navy in the three eastern provinces. After careful consideration, Song Biao agreed to jointly organize the Heilongjiang River Inspection Bureau with Russia, and the rest of the rivers

The patrol of rivers and coastal defense in offshore areas are planned and managed by the Governor's Office of the three eastern provinces, to prevent Russia from reaching too much in.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Biao established the General Administration of the Coast Guard of the Three East Provinces, and seconded the members of the Tongguang Association, including Lin Baoyi, Chen Jinglan, Zheng Wenying, Guan Qingxiang, etc., and used the method of walking together with two legs.

In addition, Song Biao made full use of the conflict between the Russian-French alliance, the British-Japanese alliance and Germany, and lobbled in the US government and the Admiralty to constrain the Japanese Navy, which was too powerful on the entire Pacific Western Coast. He secretly reached a series of secrets with the U.S. Navy.

Cooperation plan, a large number of in-service and retired U.S. Navy officers were hired as consultants, and a batch of "retired" warships were directly purchased from the U.S. Navy for patrols. The coast guard schools in the three eastern provinces even completely copied the textbooks and teaching plans of the U.S. Navy Academy.

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Song Biao laid a high foundation for the development of China and the Northeast Navy from the very beginning, but he also knew very well that it would not be a matter of twenty years to catch up with the level of the Japanese Navy.

In order to capture the navy, it was even more unworthy of the loss.

As for China's current national conditions, it is best to establish a strong army first, and it is not too late to slowly develop the navy later. As long as China's aircraft carrier fleet and industrial system can be developed before World War II, it will basically not suffer any losses.

Navy, navy.

The Navy is a noble family. Without fifty years of long-term construction, it cannot stand the foundation.

After visiting Yingkou for a day, Song Biao was indeed a little sad and disappointed with Yingkou, the naval base in the three northeastern provinces, but he also had infinite beautiful visions and expectations. That night, he stayed at the guesthouse of the General Coast Guard and participated in the American consultant.

Affairs discussion meeting between the delegation and the General Coast Guard.

After the discussion meeting, Song Biao returned to his room and called Song Wenhui, Lin Baoyi, and Chen Jinglan, the members of the Tongguang Association. Shu Fangde, Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai, who were closest to him, were also present.

There was another symposium in Song Biao's room.

The U.S. Navy is very clear about Song Biao's naval in the three northeastern provinces, and they are also very supportive. The consultants sent by semi-official nature are carefully selected talents, such as Edward Eberl.

Navy Lieutenant Colonel and Navy Major Ernest Jinn later served as Secretary of the U.S. Navy Command.

Especially Major Ernest Jinen, this person is very powerful.

Song Wenhui had previously discussed a "Ten Years of Naval Development of the Three East Provinces" within the Tongguang Association. On this basis, Naval Major Ernest Jin'en further details and compiled the "Ten Years of Naval Naval in the Three East Provinces" with Song Wenhui.

"Development Plan" is used as the recent development plan of the navy of the three northeastern provinces.

Today's affairs seminar will further explore the various specific tasks that the US consultants have to undertake in the development plan of the Navy of the Three Northeastern Provinces, as well as the responsibilities and commitments required by the US advisory group to perform the Governor's Office and the General Coast Guard of the Three Northeastern Provinces, including

The specific real power owned by the American advisory group.

After the entire affairs discussion meeting was held, Song Biao didn't say a few words. Because he didn't understand the navy, he made the priority of trying his best not to interfere, and entrusted the important task of naval construction to Song Wenhui, Tongguanghui and the American Advisory Group.

When she returned to the room, Song Biao just wanted to meet and talk with the people from the Tongguang Association alone, and had no more ideas to come up with.

Song Biao shook hands with everyone again, invited them to sit down in the room, and asked them some of their thoughts about their previous inspections in Europe and the United States. Song Wenyi was also a young child studying in the United States. After returning to China, he continued to study at Fuzhou Naval School, and after graduation he became

A navy general and Zheng Guiting were fellow townsmen in Xiangshan. He had a great relationship. It was under the contact of Zheng Guiting that the Restoration Association was joined by Song Wenhui. A group of people secretly formed a new Restoration Association.

After Song Wenyi left the Qing naval system, the Tongguanghui was secretly responsible by Wu Yingke, Cai Tinggan, Cai Yanping, Xu Zhenpeng, Yan Fu and others, and Wu Yingke, Cai Tinggan and Yan Fu were also led by Wu Yingke, Cai Tinggan and Yan Fu. In fact, these people were basically under the curtain of Yuan Shikai.

It was Yuan Shikai's fall that caused great conflicts between the Qing government and the navy, creating opportunities for the rapid development of the Tongguang Society.

Song Biao and the Qing government officially transferred Song Wenhui, Lin Baoyi, and Chen Jinglan in September last year. Before they officially took office in the three northeastern provinces, Song Biao sent Song Wenhui and others to study at the Naval Academy of the United States, Germany, Britain and France through various relationships.

Song Wenyi and Lin Baoyi studied at the U.S. Naval Academy and interned for three months in the U.S. Navy, studying the theory of maritime power of U.S. Rear Admiral Alfred Sayer Mahan.

All of the members of the Restoration Party are all determined to overthrow the Manchu rule and take it as their mission to establish a constitutional monarchy of the Han royal family. Song Biao is the leader of the Party Song Zhendan.

Everyone knows in their hearts that it is not difficult for the Chinese Revolution to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. The difficulty is how to build a powerful new Chinese Empire together. The difficulty is how to build a powerful imperial navy.

Song Wenhui had just contacted Wu Yingke a few days ago and received some new information. He told Song Biao about the development of Tongguanghui.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Qing government continued to rebuild China's navy and divided it into two fleets of Nanyang and Beiyang. In 1896, it ordered three dome cruisers, Hairong, Haichou and Haichen, and from Britain.

The cruiser continued to order four torpedo boats, Hailong, Haiqing, Haihua and Haixi, from Germany, and then ordered 14 small and medium-sized shallow-water warships suitable for cruise in the Yangtze River with Japan, restoring the naval displacement tonnage to 24,000 tons.

At this time, the Nanyang Fleet was centered on Shanghai and was renamed the Yangtze River Fleet. The Beiyang Fleet continued to be centered on Tianjin, and the secret spread of the Tongguanghui was mainly Shanghai. In Tianjin as the auxiliary, correspondingly, if the troops were now heading south to respond to the liberation revolution.

Most of them are small warships with low displacement.

After Song Wenhui finished speaking, Song Biao nodded slightly and said with satisfaction: "It's not bad. Being able to restrain the south and ensure our control in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the most important thing. As for Beiyang, it would be better to convince them to be neutral.

The best. If you can't, avoiding the navy is also a good idea."

Song Wenhui said: "General, the new Northeast Army must take the Beijing-Feng Railway when it goes south. If the Beiyang Fleet fires artillery in Jinzhou to deter the Beijing-Feng Railway, the situation may be bad."

Song Biao nodded and didn't continue.

He actually understood these truths in his heart, but he had no better way. After all, the three eastern provinces are local governments, and it is impossible to buy warships from abroad with great fanfare. This time, he bought the Liaohe auxiliary cruiser from the United States to buy merchant ships and

The reason for the name of training ships is different from buying cannons and guns, because the Qing government, as the central court, recognized the New Army of the Northeast as the formal army of the Qing government, but did not recognize the naval status of the General Administration of the Coast Guard of the three eastern provinces.

Everyone here also knows this.

Song Wenhui asked a difficult problem himself, but he could only solve it himself: "General Director, our Tongguang Association will continue to strengthen publicity in the north and try his best to convince Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing and others to join. If they can join, or at least remain neutral

, It will be easy for us to get things done, and we will succeed.”

Song Biao thought about it for a while and answered in his way: "Soldiers are the most important. If there is no warship that can compete with, then try to weaken the value of the enemy fleet. Of course, if you can succeed, it will be our generation's liberation revolution.

The first achievement!”

After hearing what Song Biao said, everyone could only nod their heads silently, knowing in their hearts that it was not easy to convince Cheng Biguang that Sa Zhenbing, a second-rank military officer who was highly valued by the Qing government, was not easy, let alone the Navy Minister Zaiwen and Cheng Sa.

It is well known to everyone.

Song Wenhui decided to change the topic and said to Song Biao: "Sir, Lin Baoyi and I have been studying Colonel Ma Han's theory of sea power recently. We deeply think that he has a very correct saying, only a major marine shipping power can become a major naval power. , my country and the three northeastern provinces are a weak shipping country and region. It is probably not easy to become a naval power with such manpower. Therefore, Northeast Ship Schools must not only continue to be opened, but also increase efforts to open shipping industries and ship factories in the three northeastern provinces. We must speed up the construction.”

Song Biao said with a hunch, "You don't have to worry too much about these things. I have arranged for the right person to speed up the handling."

Song Biao also spent a lot of time carefully studying the theory of sea power. He deeply agreed with this and arranged for the Far East Consortium to make arrangements for the development of the shipping industry and the shipbuilding industry very early. Naturally, this is still inseparable from borrowing from the United States.

After all, the United States has the sharpest pioneering spirit in the shipping and shipbuilding industry, and its foundation is quite strong.

As for Britain, falling from the throne from the King of Shipping is destined to stay away from the King of the World Navy, which is also a situation that Britain itself cannot reverse. Now is just its last glorious period. After this stage, it will really not be able to hold on.

It's right.

The affairs of the Navy should be considered as soon as possible and should be discussed in a long-term manner. However, at this stage, it is indeed not the focus that Song Biao needs to pay special attention to. Therefore, Song Biao only arranged three days for inspection in Haizhou this time. Yingkou Naval Base only took up one day.

Song Biao, who originally did not want to affect Song Wenyi and others, talked about his own ideas that night, and there were no more requirements except the "Ten-Year Development Plan for the Navy of the Three East China Provinces".

According to this plan, the navy of the three eastern provinces will develop to have 140 warships in 1920, ten years later, with a total displacement of 75,000 tons, and a scale of at least two battleships, four cruisers and twenty cruisers. At the same time, it must be the size of the two battleships.

It has the ability to manufacture three thousand tons of light cruisers for displacement.

Song Biao can only say "it's not easy" to this plan, because it all costs a lot of money.

The navy is a noble army, and what it burns is money. A country without money will definitely not be able to build a world-class fleet.

Money is really important.

Since he has arrived in Haizhou, Song Biao will definitely take time to inspect other work in Haizhou. Haizhou is still very important for the overall economic planning of the three northeastern provinces, and it has indeed given Song Biao a lot of surprises.

The new Haizhou City is a brand new city. Since March 1906, the surrounding areas of Yong'an Town and Yingkou have been set up as new industrial and commercial districts to open to the public, and a large amount of land is distributed for industrial investment promotion.

As Yingkou became increasingly prosperous, Yingkou established a separate county. Considering the long-term development of the entire Liaodong Bay area, Song Biao regarded Yong'an Town as the center area to re-establish a new Haizhou County here. The prefecture of Haizhou Prefecture was governed from Haicheng County.

Transfer to the new Haizhou New District.

The entire Haizhou Prefecture has a very magical place in the economic development of the three northeastern provinces, and it is also the area that surprises Song Biao the most. The first surprise is the local sea salt production, the second surprise is the local self-developed tussah silk industry, and the third

One surprise is the magnesite with amazing reserves, the fourth surprise is the discovery of Haizhou velvet goats. The fifth surprise is the discovery of Panjin Oilfield, and the sixth is the development of Haizhou gold mine with an annual output of 100 kilograms.

The scale is really surprising.

The most special thing is tussah silk, because this incident is indeed a bit overwhelming and is the biggest threat to the Japanese economy in history.

This is a strange surprise. Song Biao had never known that the three northeastern provinces could have such a powerful foundation for the raw silk industry. Many things seemed to be destined to be destined. The tussal silk industry in Shandong and the three northeastern provinces almost relies on oak trees, and on the Liaodong Peninsula and

In the eastern part of Haizhou, the endless primitive mountains and forests of Xiuyan County are full of oak trees.

Tussaurus silk is a very strange thing, because it mainly relies on wild forests, silkworm seeds are highly resistant to diseases, and the yield of single silkworms is high. In spring and autumn, silk is thick and harder than mulberry silk, which is suitable for machine textiles. The most important thing is artificial

The cost of feeding is extremely low, which is only 40% of mulberry silk, or even less - this is the killer weapon.

Haizhou's tussal silkworm breeding industry was brought by Shandong people. A large number of Shandong silkworm farmers gathered in Haizhou, causing Haizhou's tussal silk industry to expand rapidly, and its annual output surged from a scale of 100 tons to more than 4,000 tons in the past five years.

, not only played a good auxiliary role in the development of the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces, but also exported to the United States at low prices.

According to current estimates, the annual output of tussah silk in the three eastern provinces of the mainland, including Haizhou, is extremely likely to exceed 10,000 tons within two years, because the oak trees are ready-made and do not need to be replanted, which is a key factor of low cost.

As long as 5,000 tons can be exported to the United States, Japan's raw silk export industry will be severely damaged.

This was simply a pie that fell from the sky. Song Biao had never considered it at all before.

If Song Biao knew that the tussah silk in Liaoning Province had the opportunity to defeat the export of raw silk in Japan, he would have taken the matter urgently well. Although it is not too late, it always made Song Biao a little annoyed.

The importance of raw silk exports to Japan's economy is just like soybean exports to the three northeastern provinces. They are the foundation of economic development, representing the general trend of silver and gold inflows into the country, and representing the source of purchasing power for the people.

The incident of cutting off the export of Japanese raw silk happened in 1929 because of the impact of the world economic crisis and the Great Depression, and the final result was that Japan launched a war of aggression against China.

On the way back to Fengtian Prefecture from Haizhou Prefecture, Song Biao not only realized the possibility of defeating Japan's economy, but also realized that the premise was to make complete preparations first and not give Japan an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Chapter completed!